Do you know, Truitt ..... when I saw YOUR example, I thought ... "NO, this would/should throw an error. Changing system date should NOT be that simple (read dangerous)."Just tried it , and it worked , for BOTH Date (and Time , as I found out via the : Time() = #11:10:00 AM#).Is this dangerous .... ????? . Not sure, but it does it !!! Not sure why you would want to, but you learn something new every day.

It suprised me too. It was Saturday afternoon and I was bored and just tried it.Ocan't think of any legitimate reason to use it, unless you want to set the date/time to match the date/time on another server or website.

I looked at Truitt's example and tried the same thing with time: Time = #6:56:00 AM# and it worked also. I noticed that the example didn't have the () after the date or time. It's another reason to warn people about what names they use in their tables. If you have fields in your tables called Date or Time and try to assign values to them, it seems possible that you could be changing your system settings instead.